Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA support for Geode GX1/CS5530

2007-10-06 Thread Juergen Beisert
Hi Uwe, On Friday 05 October 2007 23:50, Uwe Hermann wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:43:37PM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote: This patch will add support for the Geode GX1/CS5530 VGA feature. Its able to set up one of five screen resolutions (sorry no autodetection at runtime, resolution is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 10/5/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: etc.) or at least ask some svn experts whether there is an easier and cleaner way to include a revision number? Yeah, that would surely be great. Do you know any method or

[LinuxBIOS] MACH BOOT

2007-10-06 Thread Jun OKAJIMA
Maybe you already know this? MACH BOOT is a very fast CD booting Linux. It boots Linux desktop in less than 10 sec from CD. Check it out please. http://www.machboot.com/ Then, why I mail here? The current issue for making boot faster is, not a Linux issue but BIOS issue. Linux can boot less

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MACH BOOT

2007-10-06 Thread Alan Carvalho de Assis
Hi Jun, 2007/10/6, Jun OKAJIMA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you already know this? MACH BOOT is a very fast CD booting Linux. It boots Linux desktop in less than 10 sec from CD. Check it out please. http://www.machboot.com/ It is fantastic, very good results. Then, why I mail here? The

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Robinson Tryon wrote: On 10/5/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: etc.) or at least ask some svn experts whether there is an easier and cleaner way to include a revision number? Yeah, that would surely be

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Ulf Jordan
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote: On 10/5/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: etc.) or at least ask some svn experts whether there is an easier and cleaner way to include a revision number? Yeah, that would surely

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Problems with Filo booting - HELP

2007-10-06 Thread joe
Okay, this is mostly a shot in the dark, but it's the only thing I can find that might cause something like this. I'm looking at the AGP size register (APSIZE, 0xb4) in the datasheet, and the default value is 0x00, which is 256MB (!!). I also don't see anywhere that AGP has to be explicitly

Re: [LinuxBIOS] lbrelocs - LinuxBIOSv3 re-linking tool

2007-10-06 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 05/10/07 17:27 -0700, ron minnich wrote: if you want true independence, why not make the stage0 symbol table a lar file? You could compress it. Then, later, you can make a new initram and will be able to link it with the stage0 that you are not going to change. I had thought about

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 10/6/07, Ulf Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote: On 10/5/07, Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: etc.) or at least ask some svn experts whether there is an easier and cleaner way to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Ulf Jordan
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of the project, this value should always reflect the latest commit in the

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b72x

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did my best to interpret the data sheet properly. I wasn't sure if the TEST registers were important or not, so I left them in. I'm still not sure about whether I should put a copyright notice in the file, so feel free to keep or kill that

[LinuxBIOS] Normal vs. fallback images and CMOS

2007-10-06 Thread Jonathan Sturges
Question. If an embedded board has no battery backup, it should have no (usable) CMOS. Therefore, is a Normal image required on such a system? My understanding is that CMOS settings are required to force the Fallback image to boot, except in cases of an missing or corrupt Normal image. I'm

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Ulf Jordan
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Ulf Jordan wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of the project, this value should

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 10/6/07, Ulf Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Ulf Jordan wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Call for help: superiotool

2007-10-06 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:10:36PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: On 10/5/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:15:02PM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote: Signed-off-by: Rasmus Wiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, committed in r2828 with some very small cosmetic changes.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b72x

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Comparing the specs for the FDC37B78x and the FDC37B72x you can see that there's a whole lot of duplication in the dump table. At first glance, the global config (apart from the chip ID), the floppy, parallel port, and serial ports have exactly the same register layout for both chip families. Is

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Problems with Filo booting - HELP

2007-10-06 Thread joe
Long story short, try setting the AGP aperture to 32MB and moving the aperture base (APBASE, 0x10-13) to somewhere else, preferably wherever the stock bios moves it to. Even if it's not the root cause, it'll get it out of the way for later. -Corey It looks like the original bios alocates

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b78x

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This patch builds on the b272x patch) fdc37b78x.patch Description: Binary data -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Normal vs. fallback images and CMOS

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jonathan Sturges [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071006 18:04]: Question. If an embedded board has no battery backup, it should have no (usable) CMOS. Therefore, is a Normal image required on such a system? My understanding is that CMOS settings are required to force the Fallback image to boot, except

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robinson Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071006 17:42]: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of the project, this value should always reflect the latest

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:00:50AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: BTW, the $Rev$ output format is ugly beyond words. Full ack. That's why it has to be mangled quite a bit before usage. However, the final output looks ok IMO: $ ./superiotool -v

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 10/6/07, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Robinson Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071006 17:42]: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Corey Osgood wrote: Uwe Hermann wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:00:50AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: BTW, the $Rev$ output format is ugly beyond words. Full ack. That's why it has to be mangled quite a bit before usage. However, the final output looks

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On 10/6/07, Corey Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Carl-Daniel, that we should probably switch to a non-svn based versioning scheme. For now, it avoids the headache of how do we do it. It also means that down the road if we don't touch superiotool for 6 months, the version hasn't

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA support for Geode GX1/CS5530

2007-10-06 Thread ron minnich
On 10/6/07, Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will resend the patch. send a patch to the repo, I committed your patch too soon it seems :-) I guess I got excited about vga! ron -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Ulf Jordan
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Robinson Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071006 17:42]: What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time? Like this: svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: \([0-9]*\)/\1/ p' As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of the project, this

[LinuxBIOS] System requirements for LinuxBIOS

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! I can't find minimal system requirements for running LinuxBIOS. Especially I interested in minimal size of flashrom because I've got one mainboard with AT29C010A - 1 Megabit 128K x 8 5-volt Only CMOS Flash Memory. Is it enough for placing LinuxBIOS there? Maybe there are some other

Re: [LinuxBIOS] : Disable OFW

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 04/10/07 08:10 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: * Jordan Crouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 22:13]: Okay, now that everybody has recovered from the last patch, here's the last one - disable OFW for the short term in buildrom. Reason being, that it only worked

Re: [LinuxBIOS] VGA support for Geode GX1/CS5530, 2nd try

2007-10-06 Thread Juergen Beisert
On Friday 05 October 2007 23:50, Uwe Hermann wrote: I can fix up a few of the cosmetic issues in the repository right away if you want, or I'll wait for another patch. Please let me know... From: Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch will fix some issues with spaces in the code and

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Make GX1 video memory size configurable

2007-10-06 Thread Juergen Beisert
From: Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch makes the reserved video memory on Geode GX1 based systems configurable. This makes sense on systems with small memories when the VGA feature is not used (CONFIG_VIDEO_MB = 0 in this case). On Geode GX1 based systems the following amount of

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37c672

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also looked at the FDC37M707, which appears to have a chip id of 0x42, but in the table there is already {0x42, FDC37B80x ...}. Are these the same chip, or? fdc37c672.patch Description: Binary data -- linuxbios mailing list

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for LPC47B27X

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P.Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: smsc.c === --- smsc.c (revision 2828) +++ smsc.c (working copy) @@ -51,6 +51,39 @@ {0x47, FDC37M60x, { {EOT}}}, {0x51, LPC47B27x, { + {NOLDN, NULL, +

[LinuxBIOS] Adding support for At29C010A

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! After a quick look through the specs for At29C020 and At29C040A I realized that all these chips looks identical. The only difference is page size - 128 bytes at At29C010A and 256 bytes at 020 and 040 models. So am I right then suggests that for enabling At20C010A chip I need only add

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Adding support for At29C010A

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2007/10/7, Peter Lemenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All! After a quick look through the specs for At29C020 and At29C040A I realized that all these chips looks identical. The only difference is page size - 128 bytes at At29C010A and 256 bytes at 020 and 040 models. So am I right then suggests

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2881+opteron +ubuntu+LBv2 = no GUI

2007-10-06 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Baski wrote: I got the latest version of LB2 as of today and followed the s2881 Built tutorial. I extracted the VGA bios from latest AMI bios (v208) using cbrom under Win-XP. Ubuntu boots into Text mode, but fails trying to launch the GUI. Can

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Problems with Filo booting - HELP

2007-10-06 Thread joe
Corey, After scatching my head for days (hair thinning even more) I think you may be onto something. I have tried changing the values in APBASE before with no luck and I think this is why: 1. APSIZE Bits[5:3] need to be set first to 111 too allow APBASE Bits[27:25] to become R/W. This

Re: [LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b72x

2007-10-06 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:50:52PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: Comparing the specs for the FDC37B78x and the FDC37B72x you can see that there's a whole lot of duplication in the dump table. At first glance, the global config (apart from the chip ID), the floppy, parallel port, and serial

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: BTW, the $Rev$ output format is ugly beyond words. Full ack. That's why it has to be mangled quite a bit before usage. However, the final output looks ok IMO: $ ./superiotool -v superiotool r2821 Not

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool patch for W83627THF/THG

2007-10-06 Thread David Hendricks
Hello everyone, Ron, Stefan and I were kicking the shit and came up with this small patch for superiotool. Adds support for a Winbond device where there was once only a stub. Enjoy! Signed-off-by: David Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: winbond.c

[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Flashrom -- Add W83627THF and K8N-Neo3 support

2007-10-06 Thread David Hendricks
Hello again everyone, Another patch we hacked up today to get flashrom working on the MSI K8N-Neo3 board. Let us know what you think! Signed-off-by: David Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: board_enable.c === --- board_enable.c

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for LPC47M112

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] This chip shares the same id as the LPC47M10x line, and from comparison, appears to have the same set of registers. In general, can I assume that two chips with the same id number will have the exact same register layout? Also, what are Ultra

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Call for help: superiotool

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Question about registers: In the datasheet for the FDC37M81x, registers 0x62,0x63 of COM2 have values marked for their hard reset (0x00,0x00). In the 'Configuration Register' column, there is a note that these two registers are 'Reserved'. So, in this type of case should I mark the two

[LinuxBIOS] initram / xip issue

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Ok, here's my latest patch that makes initram callbacks to stage0 work in v3. It's not all that pretty, but it is the least ugly thing I could find. Stefan -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

2007-10-06 Thread Corey Osgood
Uwe Hermann wrote That's expected, it won't work until you commit (and do $ svn ps svn:keywords Author Date Id Rev URL *.[ch] before committing). That's contained in the patch, but the svn properties are not applied when you simply use 'patch' to apply the patch... Uwe. Oops, my

[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for FDC37M81x

2007-10-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
Signed-off-by: Robinson P. Tryon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: smsc.c === --- smsc.c (revision 2828) +++ smsc.c (working copy) @@ -47,6 +47,33 @@ {0x4c, FDC37B72x, { {EOT}}}, {0x4d, FDC37M81x, { + {NOLDN, NULL, +

Re: [LinuxBIOS] MACH BOOT

2007-10-06 Thread Jun OKAJIMA
2007/10/6, Jun OKAJIMA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you already know this? MACH BOOT is a very fast CD booting Linux. It boots Linux desktop in less than 10 sec from CD. Check it out please. http://www.machboot.com/ It is fantastic, very good results. Then, why I mail here? The current

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2881+opteron +ubuntu+LBv2 = no GUI

2007-10-06 Thread Baski
4. Re: Tyan s2881+opteron +ubuntu+LBv2 = no GUI (Ward Vandewege) On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Baski wrote: I got the latest version of LB2 as of today and followed the s2881 Built tutorial. I extracted the VGA bios from latest AMI bios (v208) using cbrom under Win-XP. Ubuntu